THE NEW YORKER rj J )t^'th. > J V\:" /' , .......... ..t i ; " , I <: W i 1 J I. ...,j <" ...,... <<... 1 ((Look at 'em now, Lord bless my soul! And her sending his underwear to the wet wash!" law prohibiting this harm Eul practice. . The Supreme Court decision puts the bootlegger in a privileged class. He is the only citizen who can be J rrested for paying his income tax. . Under the new White House rule, if Mr. Coolidge does not see fit to answer a reporter's question that fact must not be mentioned. The idea seems to be that the Presidential bat- ting average will be better if the called strike is abolished. . Mr. Coolidge, convalescent from his bad cold, was able to go out in the yard and have his picture taken with the American Medical Association. He courageously exposed himself to the . . chilly spring aIr and two thousand doctors. . A woman from Queens Village is in court charged with hitting her hus- band on the head with a hammer. For simile purposes a husband In Queens Village might supplant the famous "snowball in hell.)) . Certain oil companies have agreed upon a dictator to restrict production, eliminate waste and act in a bossy manner generally. He begins to sound like an oiligarch. . The little girl in Jeffersonville, In- diana, who won the right to w'ear knickers has been sued for $5,000 for exposing the school authorities to public ridicule. It seems the child 23 . . i V" , , ' _' I v . has a positive gift for exposing things. . The girls are asked to wear long skirts, petticoats and cotton stockings to bring back prosperity to Dixie. This scheme may work beautifully, but if we were a cotton grower we w'Ould ca rry a spare. . There has been a new shipment of Marines to Nicaragua, and by 1928 all the leathernecks will be there, in- sunng an honest election. Nature, we assume, will be permitted to take its course in Pennsylvania. . A scientist says the sun is going to last us another fi f teen billion years. What we shall do after that we do not know, but Herbert Hoover will think of something.-HowARD BRUBAKER